redzcstandardhatch

like the topic says, has anybody ever made a steel sheetmetal intake for a honda? i searched , but got nothing.....just curious. i'm in process of fabbing mine.

-cheap

-easy to work with

-cheap

-already had steel velocity stacks that will work perfect as runners

-cheap

E-Rok

steel holds heat more than aluminum which is bad for intake air temps.

ManBearPig4silly

^^what he said^^
You could just copy the design of an AL manifold only in steel...

And doesn't your brother have a tig?

fork

you can't make something cool like that and not post pics

If you worried about heat you can get it ceramic coated, that will help

E-Rok

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If you worried about heat you can get it ceramic coated, that will help</TD></TR></TABLE>

ot really, the engine is going to radiate heat on it and its going to act as a heak sink. ceramic coating will help is absorb heat from around it, but not from within.

redzcstandardhatch

theoretically, aluminum absorbs heat faster than steel...(if it is the same thickness, etc.)

using a phonelic gasket, it should be decent.......

i'm debating ceramic coating it....not sure. we'll see.

oh, and yeah, my brother and i have a tig david.......and we could do aluminum....but it really is more of a pain, and costly. total budget for this manifold-85 bucks.

guess nobody has really done this....oh well. cool.

ManBearPig4silly

Make sure you bring it up sometime so I can see it.

xci_ed6

aluminum changes temperature faster, heat is a constant.

but overall i think the differences will be nil. The aluminum will heat up faster, and it will transfer heat to the air (internal and external) faster.

Plus after any sgnificant run time with the hood closed the manifolds will both be the same temperatures.

ManBearPig4silly

http://www.sdsefi.com/techinta.htm

redzcstandardhatch

awesome find david.

very good info too. mine will be fashioned after the supra intake manifolds that MVP motorsports makes. i'll see if i can find a picture of one...

will have a HUGE plenum, with velocity stacks as the runners. REALLY short runners.

ManBearPig4silly

So when are you gonna build a sweet exh manifold for that sucker? I have like 12 mild steel weld els you can have for like free. I like stainless

edit: here is where that link came from. Crap loads of sweet tech articles.

http://www.sdsefi.com/tech.html

redzcstandardhatch

i'll take em david! PM me your phone # if you read this........or i'll PM you on ef-honda

RCautoworks

He makes them

https://honda-tech.com/zero...04364

And for 20 bucks a piece.

redzcstandardhatch

yeah, but he doesnt make them for a sohc right now, doesnt want to make a single one........understandable.

i'm sending a gasket to exploited soon, whenever i get around to it. he said he'd do it for 65 bucks.

JK_Motorsports

Is there not a fear of Corrosion using steel. I was think of using steel, but now am leaning toward aluminum because of the corrosion factor.

Flashmn

It takes a while to rust through, so I wouldnt worry about it. I have a steel manifold for my weber dcoe's.

beepy

There are only two reasons aluminum is used to make intake manifolds. One, it is about as lightweight as you can go cheaply. Two, and more importantly, aluminum is easier to cast and machine. If manufacturers had to weld manifolds together, bets are good that most would choose steel as a material.

On the other hand, most of the 60's and 70's cars I have owned had iron intake manifolds, until I swapped them out for aluminum.